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Benefits of Forgiveness

Why should I forgive?

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This is a six-week course in the Benefits of Forgiveness. You will learn the various benefits of forgiveness. The benefits of forgiveness touches many areas of life. The student will learn how forgiveness can bring joy and relief to their emotions and health. The student will learn how forgiveness will help improve their social life or inter-personal relationships, and also their relationship with God.

The only pre-requisite is a desire to forgive and or desire to want to forgive where the desire is lacking.

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When we are offended, we have in essence, been struck emotionally. We get angry and we carry the emotional burden everywhere we go. Forgiveness Discipleship Module 1, Benefits of Forgiveness will teach you how to get rid of this pain, anger, and resentment through the power of forgiveness. This book will help you to preserve your social relationships. Carrying a heavy emotional burden will affect your physical health. This book will show you how to avoid the health hazards you risk when being unforgiving. You will learn what the Bible says about the definition and the importance of forgiveness.

When we are offended we are angry at the one who hurt us
because we think they are to blame. In this lesson, you will not only learn
that forgiveness brings relief to anger, you will also learn how to achieve
this sense of relief. An advantage of forgiveness is becoming free of the
suffocating anger that is seething in our hearts.

Forgiveness Gives Relief to Anger

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Week 3

1 Lecture
19:35

The impact of forgiveness on human relationships and human interactions are examined, as well as the ways in which forgiveness benefits the forgiver. Forgiveness is indispensable in a healthy relationship. In this lesson, you will learn how forgiveness can heal the pain of the past and allow you to enjoy present friendships without fear and embrace future relationships God has lined up for you. In refusing to forgive, you will lack the trust and hope necessary for old and new relationships.

Forgiveness Leads to Healthy Relationships

19:35

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Week # 4

1 Lecture
11:29

One of the blessings that God grants us for being forgiving is that we too will receive what we give to others. This lesson focuses on one of the premises by which the believers can enjoy forgiveness from God. Although the blood of Jesus is the basis for our forgiveness, refusal to forgive could stand in the way of the application of the blood of Jesus on our sins, even though He has made salvation possible. Two words are considered in the hope of facilitating forgiveness.

Forgiveness Leads to your Sins Being Forgiven

11:29

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Week # 5

1 Lecture
11:29

Refusal to forgive must result in God’s refusal to forgive; Jesus’ own words confirm this statement. What price can be placed on God’s refusal to forgive? This lesson looks at the Scriptures and lists the varied consequences and dangers of unforgiveness. More importantly, it examines the eternal repercussions of refusing to forgive.

Forgiveness and Eternal Repercussions

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Week # 6

1 Lecture
14:00

There is a correlation between our emotions and our health, according to both the Word of God and medical science. This lesson will focus on the effect and impact of both unforgiveness and forgiveness on your physical health. You will learn that unforgiveness can be responsible for a lot of physical ailments incurred by stress. You will want to forgive for the sake of your health!

For the past 18 years, Dr. Tai Ikomi has been sharing her testimony of how she forgave the drunk who killed her husband and three children on an interstate highway Platte city, in Missouri. She travels all over the world sharing the grace of God on her shattered emotions over her tremendous loss and the power to forgive the drunk. Three years after her loss, she published her best seller and first book, His Beauty For My Ashes, an account of how the grace of God healed her wounded spirit and gave her a new lease in life. The book has become a classic book to help people who lose their loved ones.

After years of sharing her testimony of forgiveness, she released her first book on Forgiveness in 1998, titled, The Virtue of Forgiveness. In 2009, she released another book on the same subject, titled, Effective Forgiveness. The book takes a practical at forgiveness and how to weave it into daily living with practical insights and suggestions from Scriptures. A great reading.

Dr. Ikomi holds a B.A. degree in French from Universite du Benin, Lome Togo in 1976 an M.A. degree in Theology from Oral Roberts University in 1991. She also holds a doctorate degree in Theology. She has written over 30 books covering various issues of victorious Christian living.

Dr. Ikomi speaks in conferences, churches, universities on Effective Forgiveness and other practical issues of the Christian life. She presents the God, who is not only about to comfort us in our affliction but who also can turn any situation around.